Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest coup was his sponsorship of his funereal friend, the late great Arthur B. Davies. Sensitive Artist Davies had a studio right over the gallery, lunched with William Macbeth every day, used to bring his pictures down to exhibit before the paint was dry, was always free to borrow all the cash in the till...
...successive deficit was the purpose of the House tax bill. The Treasury has calculated that for 1933 it would go about $1,681,000,000 into the red. Of this amount $440,000,000 represents the annual statutory reduction of the Public Debt. The Administration's design is to borrow that amount, thus keeping the Public Debt stationary, and to level up the Government's actual cash receipts and expenditures. To do that $1,241,000,000 in new revenue must be raised...
Smart is King George's youngest son Prince George. He thought up in his schooldays a way to outwit Queen Mary. She gave him only four shillings a week pocket money, exacted his word of honor not to borrow. Honorable, he priced his own autograph at two bob (shillings), sold as many as he could, clipped his father's autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers...
...haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant had slipped him a penny instead of a half-crown for his fare. Throughout the trial the rector had trouble with taximen. One day he had to borrow his fare from a reporter. Chief witness was 17-year-old Barbara Harris, who first complained of the rector's behavior to his bishop. Counsel for the Defense, a Mr. Levy, quickly proved that Miss Harris had had promiscuous affairs with various men of assorted races and colors...
...Approved a bill by Kentucky's Barkley to waive the requirement that soldier bonus certificates must have been in force for two years before veterans may borrow 50% on them...